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InsideOCTOBER 2009VOLUME 10 •10 regulars EDITOR’S NOTE6 CAUGHT ON FILM8 ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF10 SPOTLIGHT12 STYLE38 MUSIC MAKERS42 HOT PLAY44 DVD RELEASES46 HOROSCOPE48 FAMOUS LAST WORDS50 features FALL-HOLIDAY PREVIEW15 Movies about robots, wizards and men behaving badly are replaced with more serious fare, and we’ve got the details in our Fall-Holiday Preview • By Marni Weisz cover & Ingrid Randoja story HUSBANDS AND WIVES24 Couples Retreat co-stars Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn, and director Peter Billingsley, tell us why they’re dead serious when it comes to poking fun at failing relationships 34 • By Glenn Whipp DIAZ’S DILEMMA Cameron Diaz faces a huge dilemma in her new movie The Box — whether or not to push a button and, perhaps, kill a stranger in order to earn $1-million. Off-screen, the 37-year-old beauty DERBY DARLINGS26 also faces difficult decisions (like when to act her age in youth-obsessed Hollywood) Whip It star Ellen Page and her • By Kevin Williamson co-star/director Drew Barrymore reveal how making a rock ’em sock ’em movie about ladies empowered them both • By Bob Strauss

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LEONARDO DICAPRIO Jake Gyllenhaal captures 1 the moment as girlfriend JAKE GYLLENHAAL Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Ava crosses the finish line of a CAUGHT RACHELLE LEFEVRE 5 km race on Martha’s Vineyard. Gyllenhaal had already finished ETHAN HAWKE the race 53rd out of more than 1,500 runners. AUDRINA PATRIDGE  PHOTO BY JACK MCCOY/SPLASH NEWS ON FILM Ethan Hawke finally gets to 2 explore his Christ complex during a performance of William Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale at Greece’s Epidaurus Theatre. This was just one of several European stops for the touring production directed by Sam Mendes.  PHOTO BY TOM DASKALAKIS/SPLASH NEWS

Hey, that’s not regulation. 3 Audrina Patridge stands in front of the mound to throw out the first pitch at a recent L.A. Dodgers game.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

“Don’t just stand there, help 4 him! It’s Leonardo DiCaprio for God’s sake!” The cutie-pie actor shows he can take a punch while shooting Christopher Nolan’s Inception in Morocco.  PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS

Montreal’s Rachelle Lefevre 2 3 5 shoots a dramatic scene for Barney’s Version in . Let’s hope the movie based on ’s notable novel is good. Scheduling conflicts have been cited as the reason the Canadian actor got bumped from the Twilight franchise.  PHOTO BY KEYSTONE PRESS

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SHORTS   ENTERTAINMENT IN Forget Halloween,BRIEF October’s all about for Saw star Tobin Bell. Plus, Buzz’s bust

World Series games, but I’m so busy talking to the press that I can’t go,” says the 67-year-old Bell on the line from New York. Artifact Bell was raised in Weymouth, THIS MONTH’S Massachusetts, and grew up a OBJET DE FILM Boston Red Sox fan, but after BUZZ LIGHTYEAR BUST living in New York for 35 years It may look like an ironic he’s become a dedicated work of kitsch art inspired New York Yankees fan. “I lived by the Toy Story movies, but through the Billy Martin years, this Buzz Lightyear bust Reggie Jackson, all of those was an integral part of the guys,” he says. “There was no animation process when way you couldn’t get swept up in the first two Toy Story films the Yankees drama of the ’70s, were created in the 1990s. so I guess you could call me a It’s what Pixar animators traitor if you want.” call a “Digitizable Sculpt” — Bell is not only a fan, a polymer clay model used he’s a Little League coach who to map a character’s face. A instructs his 13-year-old son’s technician uses a stylus team. Imagine being a teenage attached to a robotic arm to boy and having Jigsaw as touch the surface of the your baseball coach, how cool model along points defined would that be? by that grid. The information “Generally, when we’re on a is then fed into a computer HE’S A sports field it doesn’t come up,” and the resulting “mesh” he says, “we’re totally immersed allows animators to move in what we’re doing and a lot of and manipulate the these kids haven’t even seen character’s face. KILLER these films. But there are some Not quite to infinity who have and they come up and beyond, but Buzz has every once and a while and say been travelling the world something like, ‘Do the voice, do for the past few years as the Jigsaw voice.’” part of the Pixar: 20 Years COACH Bell’s son hasn’t seen any of of Animation exhibition. It’s October, which killer Jigsaw (who died several his dad’s movies, but “he’s seen He’s currently in Taipei. means two things for Tobin Bell movies back but lives on via bits and pieces of them. He will Toy Story and Toy Story 2 — the release of another Saw flashbacks and evil protégés), see them when he’s interested in are being re-released in movie (Saw VI, on October 23rd, spends the month promoting the seeing them, but even the trailer theatres this month, in 3D to be precise) and the baseball movies but wishes he could on TV was a bit too much, he was no less, and the brand-new playoffs. Bell, who plays the focus solely on baseball. like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s pretty Toy Story 3 (also in 3D) hits franchise’s game-loving serial “It would be fun to go to some scary.’” —IR screens in June 2010. —MW

10 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 SHORTS SPOTLIGHT AARON ABRAMS,

Amelia hits theatres October 23rd

aron Abrams arrived back in his hometown of a parade as no woman had ever been part of a Trans-Atlantic flight. Toronto and they held a parade in his honour. Anyone who’s seen photos of Earhart can’t help but notice the Well, not exactly in his honour, rather in striking resemblance between her and Swank.“It’s unreal, she’s a honour of Slim Gordon, the real-life he dead ringer for Amelia in every aspect, it’s bizarre,” says Abrams. plays in this month’s bio-pic Amelia, which “And Hilary flips into Amelia Earhart with such grace, it’s baffling, stars Hilary Swank as the famed 1930s you’re like, ‘Wow, she must be some sort of weird savant.’” aviatrix Amelia Earhart and was filmed partly in Toronto. The Toronto native was also blown away by how the film’s set A“My first day on set they blocked off four blocks of Yonge Street designers transformed the city he knows so well. and had a parade,” says Abrams on the phone from his home in “It’s amazing to see how they turn back the clock, and Amelia does Los Angeles. “I just drove four blocks and then they rolled the car it on this massive scale like I’ve never seen before,” he says. “It’s back and I drove again. That was the whole day, driving in a parade weird when you’re dressed in full costume and everywhere you look sitting beside Hilary Swank.” people are dressed in 1930s clothes, and then you bump into a guy Gordon was one of the two pilots who flew Earhart across the with a Blue Jays hat and you look at him like he’s the weird one.” F Atlantic Ocean in 1928. Earhart didn’t actually fly the plane — she //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// In Theatres October 23 PHOTO BY IAN BROWN BY PHOTO

simply kept the flight log — but that alone was enough to warrant Ingrid Randoja 

12 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 © MMIX Lions Gate Films Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distributed in Canada by MAPLE PICTURES. www.maplepictures.com FALL-HOLIDAY PRESENTS MOVIE

OUR PICKS FOR OCTOBERPREVIEW, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER’S MUST-SEE MOVIES

A Serious Man, Toy Story 3D, Toy Story 2 3D, Whip It, Zombieland, Couples Retreat, Cairo Time, Law Abiding Citizen, The Road, The Stepfather, Where the Wild Things Are, Nightmare Before Christmas 3D, Amelia, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Saw VI, Astro Boy, This is It, Youth in Revolt, The Box, A Christmas Carol 3D, The Men Who Stare at Goats, 2012, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Planet 51, The Blind Side, The Twilight Saga: , Nine, Old Dogs, Brothers, Everybody’s Fine, The Princess and the Frog, The Lovely Bones, Invictus, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Avatar, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, Sherlock Holmes, It’s Complicated

OCTOBER 2009 FAMOUS 15 The Invention of Lying Cairo Time him, the D.A. and anyone else Along the way they fend off British funnyman Ricky This tender and acutely who stands in his path to desperate survivors — including Gervais plays Mark, an observed drama finds the retribution. cannibals — while trying to hold OCTOBER average guy who lives in a married Juliette (Patricia RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 16 onto their own humanity. prevıews world much like our own. The Clarkson) travelling to Cairo, RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 16 one big difference is that no Egypt, where she makes an The Road one there knows how to emotional connection with her This adaptation of Cormac The Stepfather lie...until Mark figures it out. husband’s former co-worker McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize- Real stepfathers everywhere RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2 Tareq (Alexander Siddig), a Cairo winning novel is set in a suffer a PR knock with this thriller native who acts as her tour guide desolate, post-apocalyptic starring Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck’s Couples Retreat through the mesmerizing city. America where a father Sean McNamara) as the WHERE THE Four troubled couples — See Patricia Clarkson interview, (Viggo Mortensen) and son seemingly perfect guy who WILD THINGS Vince Vaughn/Malin Akerman, page 30. (Kodi Smit-McPhee) slowly marries Michael’s (Penn Badgley) ARE Jon Favreau/Kristin Davis, RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 9 travel south toward the ocean. mom, Susan (Sela Ward). But OCTOBER 16 Jason Bateman/Kristen Bell Michael suspects Mr. Perfect is Maurice Sendak had been and Faizon Love/Kali Hawk — Law Abiding Citizen hiding a deep, dark secret. holding out for decades. The travel to an island paradise to Clyde Shelton’s (Gerard Butler) RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 16 now 81-year-old author of the participate in relationship wife and child are murdered, and classic kids book Where the therapy. See interview with the assistant district attorney Nightmare Before Wild Things Are wanted the Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn (Jamie Foxx) cuts a deal with the Christmas 3D right filmmaker to adapt his and director Peter killer for a lighter sentence. Ten In what has become a Halloween work, and he found him in Billingsley, page 24. years later the killer is set free, tradition, Henry Selick’s classic Spike Jonze (Being John RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 9 and Clyde takes revenge against stop-motion continued  Malkovich, Adaptation). Sendak's 491-word masterpiece focuses on a boy named Max who is sent to his room by his mother after acting out. There he imagines a world populated by beasts called Wild Things, who anoint him as their king. That's not a lot to work with, so screenwriter Dave Eggers flushes out the tale by A Serious Man for the upcoming and long- Zombieland having Max (Max Records) The Coen Brothers bring their awaited Toy Story 3, which hits In a world overrun with misbehave because his wonderfully controlled sense of theatres in June 2010. zombies it takes a brave man mother (Catherine Keener) anarchy to this 1967-set comedy RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2 to hack, shoot and pummel is having a relationship that focuses on college professor the evil undead. Columbus with a younger man Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), Whip It (Jesse Eisenberg) isn’t that (Mark Ruffalo). whose life is falling apart. His wife Sixteen-year-old Bliss Cavendar man, but gun-toting Jonze was adamant that announces she’s leaving him, his (Ellen Page) learns to keep her Tennessee (Woody Harrelson) he wanted to use old-school layabout brother won’t get off the elbows up and head on swivel is, and they team up in an effects — no CGI or blue- couch and it looks like he’ll be while skating in a women’s roller effort to survive the zombie screen technology, but rather denied a tenure position. Larry derby league. The independent- onslaught. actors in furry suits — and seeks out three rabbis to get minded Bliss travels from her RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2 arty camerawork to tell the some advice, but even they aren’t home in the sleepy town of story. The decision irked sure they can help loser Larry. Bodeen, , to Austin, where Warner Bros, who considered RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2 she joins a team of rebel roller making Jonze re-shoot the girls, lead by Smashley Simpson entire film. But after years of Toy Story & (Drew Barrymore, also making finagling (the film started Toy Story 2 (3D) her directing debut), Dinah Might shooting in 2005), the execs Woody, Buzz and the rest of the (Juliette Lewis) and Malice in and the artist are happy, and toys from Andy’s room are back Wonderland (Kristen Wiig). one of the year's most on the big screen as Disney re- See Drew Barrymore and anticipated family films releases the Toy Story pics in 3D; Ellen Page interview, page 26. finally hits theatres. no doubt whetting our appetites RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 2 Bosom Buddies: Woody and Buzz are back in new 3D versions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2

16 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 OCTOBER 2009 FAMOUS 17 SPECIAL EVENTS on the Big Screen

ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Britain’s National Theatre Company performs William Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy. Thurs., Oct. 1 7 p.m. ET/PT 8 p.m. CT/MT

MONTY PYTHON: ALMOST THE TRUTH Documentary recounts the history of the British comedy troupe. Thurs., Oct. 22 Chris Massoglia (left) and John C. Reilly in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant 7 p.m. ET/PT WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW  animation returns to the big (Chris Massoglia), joins a circus HELL IN A CELL screen in 3D. and is befriended by vampire Sun., Oct. 4, 8 p.m. ET RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23 Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), who turns him into his half- THE Amelia vampire assistant. METROPOLITAN Hilary Swank bears an uncanny RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23 OPERA resemblance to Amelia Earhart, TOSCA (PUCCINI) which is a good thing Saw VI Live: Sat., Oct. 10, considering she stars as the Let’s see. Who’s still alive? 1 p.m. ET famed ’30s aviatrix in this bio-pic Not Special Agent Strahm Encore: Sat., Oct. 31, directed by Mira Nair. Earhart, (Scott Patterson). Not Jigaw giving the robot superpowers, 1 p.m. ET the first woman to fly solo (Tobin Bell), although the Astro Boy disappoints the AIDA (VERDI) across the Atlantic, captured the psycho, game-loving genius scientist and goes off into the Live: Sat., Oct. 24, public’s imagination as well as lives on in flashbacks. Guess it’s universe to fight evil. 1 p.m. ET the hearts of her partner and up to Detective Hoffman RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23 husband, George Putnam (Costas Mandylor) to carry on, GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR (Richard Gere), and her lover, which he does by setting a new This is It PARTICIPATING THEATRES Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). game in motion just as the FBI is Sony Pictures reportedly paid AND TO BUY TICKETS. RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23 closing in. See Tobin Bell $60-million for the footage of interview, page 10. Michael Jackson rehearsing for Cirque du Freak: The RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23 his upcoming This Is It Tour. This Youth in Revolt Vampire’s Assistant documentary is directed by Michael Cera stars as Are you vampired-out yet? Astro Boy Kenny Ortega (High School Nick Twisp, a teenage virgin Hope not ’cause the vampire Japan’s favourite robot started Musical) who was prepping who meets the foxy Sheeni train keeps a-rolling with this off as a manga, morphed into a Jackson for his concert tour. He Saunders (Portia Doubleday) adaptation of the first three TV series and now becomes an had more than 100 hours of while vacationing with his books from author Darren Shan’s animated Hollywood movie. rehearsal footage with which to parents and decides she is the 12-volume, young adult Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage) builds piece together this look at the last girl who will make him a man. Cirque du Freak series. The Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) two months of Jackson's life. RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 30 hero, also named Darren Shan after his own son is killed. Despite RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 28 continued  THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED 18 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 crumbling-terrain effects that SPECIAL were the highlights of his otherwise disappointing EVENTS NOVEMBER 2004 environment-gone- on the Big prevıews haywire flick for this Screen blockbuster about the year 2012, which the ancient WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW Mayans predicted would be SURVIVOR SERIES our last. Tall, dark and cute Sun., Nov. 22, 8 p.m. ET John Cusack replaces tall, dark and cute Jake Gyllenhaal THE METROPOLITAN THE TWILIGHT as the protagonist/possible OPERA SAGA: NEW saviour. TURANDOT (PUCCINI) MOON RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 13 Live: Sat., Nov.7, 1 p.m. ET NOVEMBER 20 AIDA (VERDI) Stop screaming already! Fantastic Mr. Fox Encore: Sat., Nov. 21, 1 p.m. ET Okay, now that we can hear Who could attract the likes of as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol ourselves think...we’re Meryl Streep, GO TO CINEPLEX.COM FOR wondering to what lengths and Bill Murray to an PARTICIPATING THEATRES we’d go to get — and keep — a animated movie about a Planet 51 The Blind Side AND TO BUY TICKETS. role in a teen franchise like thieving fox? That would be We’re still trying to decide Sandra Bullock takes a break Twilight. Canadian Rachelle Wes Anderson, director of whether this animated feature from rom-coms to play Lefevre plays vampire Victoria such quirky fare as The Royal about an astronaut (voiced by Leigh Anne Touhy, who, along the Ravens in the first in the series’ first two films, Tenenbaums, Rushmore and ) who lands on with her husband Sean round of the 2009 NFL Draft. Twilight and New Moon, but Bottle Rocket. We can’t wait to a faraway planet and discovers (Tim McGraw) adopts an African- Based on a true story. will be replaced by Bryce see how he applies his off- little green creatures living American kid from a broken RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20 Howard in the third film, kilter eye to this stop-motion exactly as we do here on Earth home, then watches as that kid, Eclipse, because of scheduling adaptation of Roald Dahl’s (complete with white picket Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), Nine conflicts. At least, that’s the story about three unpleasant fences, tea parties and the goes on to become an All- Not to be confused with 9 (the reason the studio gives. farmers trying to stop a wily English language) supports American offensive left tackle for animated sci-fi that came out in On the other hand, there fox from stealing their food. evolution or creationism. the University of Mississippi’s September), Nine is a musical were reports the producers RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20 RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 20 football team, and is chosen by adapted from a Broadway were quietly wondering production that was, itself, whether little Taylor Lautner inspired by Italian director should be replaced for Federico Fellini’s semi- New Moonsince his character, The Box Ewan McGregor play the reporter 2012 auto biographical film 8½. Jacob Black, goes through a A stranger (Frank Langella) tracking him on a mission to If you saw the trailer for this Daniel Day Lewis plays Fellini huge physical transformation presents a box to an unhappily find the program’s founder end-of-the-world thriller and surrogate director Guido Contini in order to become leader of married couple (Cameron Diaz (Jeff Bridges)? Thought so. thought, “Hey, didn’t this who’s surrounded by women — the werewolves. Lautner and James Marsden) and tells RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 6 movie used to be called including his wife (Marion responded by gaining 30 them if they push a button on The Day After Tomorrow?” Cotillard) and mistress pounds of muscle, and the box they’ll become rich, but A Christmas Carol (3D) you’re right. Sort of. Director (Penélope Cruz) — as he kept the role. by doing so a stranger will die. With so many versions of Roland Emmerich dusts off struggles to complete a film. And upping Lautner’s See Cameron Diaz and James A Christmas Carol already the heaving-ocean and Rob Marshall () directs hunkiness factor was of Marsden interview, page 34. clogging up the season, how do based on a screenplay by the particular importance since RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 6 you make a new one that won’t late Anthony Minghella. New Moon sees him supplant get lost? Animate the sucker RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 25 gloomy Robert Pattinson as The Men Who Stare using motion-capture the franchise’s leading man. at Goats technology (still freaky, in our Old Dogs When Pattinson’s tousle- If we told you there’s a top-secret opinion), make it 3D and cast When Dan’s (Robin Williams) haired vampire Edward Cullen arm of the American military Jim Carrey not only as tightwad ex-wife (Kelly Preston) tells him takes off, thinking his developing mind-control tech - Ebenezer Scrooge, but as he has seven-year-old twins he absence is the only way to niques — like being able to kill a several other characters, didn’t know about, he enlists the keep his beloved Bella goat just by staring at it — would including those creepy ghosts of help of his friend Charlie (John (Kristen Stewart) safe, it you believe us? More importantly, Christmas past, present and Travolta) to care for the kids. leaves the door open for would you go see George Clooney yet to come. Old Dogs’ John Travola (left) and Robin Williams RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 25 Black to move in on his girl. play one such psychic officer, and RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 6 continued 

20 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 OCTOBER 2009 FAMOUS 21 Invictus — to a tiny Wyoming town, famous sleuth, the venerable SPECIAL Of all the ways one could make courtesy of the witness Sherlock Holmes. Jude Law a bio-pic about Nelson Mandela protection program. jumps in as Holmes’ sidekick, EVENTS DECEMBER (Morgan Freeman), Invictus RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 18 Watson, and together they on the Big prevıews chooses to come at its subject battle Satanist Lord Blackwood Screen through an unconventional Alvin and the Chipmunks: (Mark Strong), a mysterious cult entry point — the 1995 The Squeakuel leader they sent to the gallows, WWE-PAY-PER-VIEW Rugby World Cup, which the Most of us know what it’s like to but who promises to return ARMAGEDDON South African leader used to feel out of place on the first day from the grave. Sun., Dec. 13, 8 p.m. ET bring his ailing country of school, imagine how much RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 25 AVATAR together post-apartheid. worse it would be if you were a THE DECEMBER 18 Matt Damon steps in as chipmunk, and all the other It’s Complicated METROPOLITAN Just to give you some Francois Pienaar, the captain students were human. No, not In this breath-of-fresh-air OPERA perspective on this epic sci-fi of the South African team. the premise for a George Carlin romantic comedy from director TURANDOT (PUCCINI) project, director James RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 11 bit; but the plot of the sequel to Nancy Meyers, Alec Baldwin is Encore: Sat., Dec. 5, Cameron wrote the first draft 2007’s huge live-action/CGI hit an older guy who leaves his wife 1 p.m. ET in early 1996 — a year before Did You Hear About the starring rodents Alvin, Simon (Meryl Streep) and marries a LES CONTES D’HOFFMAN Titanic was released. It’s also Morgans? and Theodore and their human 20-something. But guess what? 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Couples Retreat’s cast. Back row, from left: Kristen Bell, he harried marrieds played by The movie’s storyline is simple enough. Four couples travel to Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau an island resort (“Disneyland for adults” is the sales pitch) together Faizon Love, Kali Hawk. in the new movie Couples Retreat in order to get a group discount. The peppy, PowerPoint pair (Jason Front row, from left: Jason could, with a little imagination, Bateman and Kristen Bell) behind the travel plans paint it as a trip to Bateman, Vince Vaughn, be seen as distant extensions of paradise, even though they themselves, teetering on divorce, are Malin Akerman their Swingers hepcats, 13 years going as a last-ditch effort to save their marriage. down the line, with drooling The other three couples are in different places altogether. One pair kids and simmering resentment (played by Favreau and Kristin Davis) has completely checked out of COUPLES replacing all the cocktails and their marriage, counting the days until their daughter leaves for Rat Pack repartee. college and they can formalize a divorce. There’s the freshly divorced RETREAT Favreau will be the first to tell guy (Faizon Love) trying to handle a young woman (Kali Hawk) from you it’s not that great a leap. He a generation he knows nothing about. And there’s the movie’s most HITS THEATRES wrote Swingers about his expe- realistic couple (Vaughn and Malin Akerman), who put their marriage th rience of relocating to L.A. while trying to get over a on the backburner when their children arrived. OCTOBER 9 broken heart and break into acting. Couples Retreat, “It’s three cringe-worthy couples and one more at the centre of it Twhich Favreau co-wrote with Vaughn and Dana Fox, all,” Vaughn says in a separate phone interview. “It’s like what Jon did came from a personal place too. He and his wife had with Swingers. You take the person who’s the proxy for the audience just been through counselling and the experience was and surround them by more extreme characters.” fresh in his mind. “It’s the Wizard of Oz paradigm,” says Favreau. “It’s a great way to “When you live in Hollywood and your career is tell stories.” going well and your wife’s career is going well and Couples Retreat is the sixth collaboration between Vaughn and you add kids to the equation, all those things totally Favreau, who met in 1993 while making Rudy and followed the vampire your energy,” Favreau says over the phone Favreau-written Swingers with another Favreau film, Made (2001). from L.A. “You have to make sure you’re actually pres- The two also appeared in The Break-Up, Four Christmases and Vaughn’s ent and not just checking all the boxes that fulfill 2006 stand-up comedy documentary, Wild West Comedy Show. your obligations as a good spouse and good parent.” Adding to the familial feel is the presence of Peter Billingsley, Considering Those kinds of philosophical musings might seem producer of a number of Vaughn and Favreau’s movies, and on board Vince Vaughn, at odds with the campy comedy in the movie’s pro- for Couples Retreat as a first-time director. Billingsley’s behind-the- motional campaign — most memorably a Speedo- scenes work has provided him with a formidable second act in Jon Favreau and wearing yoga instructor who’s clearly unaware of Hollywood, following his iconic work as Ralphie, the Red Ryder BB Peter Billingsley’s the meaning of personal space. But Couples Retreat, Gun-obsessed kid in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story. Billingsley was past works, it’s like The Break-Up and other studio comedies featur- originally going to produce Couples Retreat with Favreau directing, ing Vaughn and Favreau, attempts to mix in a dash but they switched jobs when Favreau committed to Iron Man 2. no surprise that of authentic humanity to go along with the laughs. “Pete went into adulthood and made up his mind that he loves film Couples Retreat, and he wanted to continue in it,” says Vaughn, who met Billingsley their new movie while acting in a 1990 after-school special about steroids. “He worked about marriage, really hard, and it was a dedication to becoming educated rather than just trying to be successful. Everything he has done has been features a quartet well-earned.” of couples in Favreau, a father of three who’s closing in on a decade with his crisis. Question wife, Joya Tillem, is the only one of the three with experience at the is, will any of altar. Billingsley and Vaughn are lifelong bachelors. Favreau says the different perspectives on relationships added an them live happily inside-outside point of view that helped make Couples Retreat more ever after? interesting.“For a studio movie like this, the comedy has to hit hard,  BY GLENN WHIPP but you need some authenticity, too,” Favreau says. “We don’t do sketch or broad comedy.” Again, that statement seems somewhat at odds with the big joke in the movie’s trailer, featuring the buff French yoga instructor who gets Wedding up-close-and-personal with both the male and female participants. “Yeah, it’s pretty out there,” Billingsley admits over a pastrami sandwich at a Hollywood restaurant. “But you can relate if you’ve ever gone to a yoga studio with your wife or girlfriend and the yoga teacher says, ‘Let me help guide your wife into a position.’ And you look at him and think, ‘Really? You can’t just tell her?’” F Peter Billingsley directs /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Glenn Whipp lives in L.A. where he writes about movies. BASHERS24 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 OCTOBER 2009 FAMOUS 25 INTERVIEW DREW BARRYMORE & ELLEN PAGE WHIP IT HITS THEATRES OCTOBER 2nd ROLLINGWITH THE PUNCHES Roller derby is a brutal sport. But Whip It’s director Drew Barrymore and star Ellen Page came fully prepared. These grrrls know that with trial and tribulation often comes liberty and joy  BY BOB STRAUSS

an you think of any sport with less class than roller derby? Fake wrestling doesn’t count. Yet to hear Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page talk about Whip It, the prospect of garishly costumed women punch- ing, tripping and elbowing each other around a skating track sounds like a near spiritual act of sisterly bonding. CAs long as you’re only doing it for a movie, anyway. “Ellen’s just so wonderful,” Barrymore, who directed the film in addition to playing its delicately named Smashley Simpson, says of From left: Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig in Whip It. Below: Barrymore directs her star player during a recent interview at a Beverly Hills hotel. “She’s just an incredible person and she’s so phenomenal in the movie. People really root for her and her character in Whip It…. “I was able to step back and let it be about her,” Barrymore con- tinues. “All of my focus, all my cameras were on her; it’s her movie, it’s her story. I just can’t believe how fortunate I was to get to do it with her.” Barrymore’s enthusiasm for Page may have something to do with the shared sensibility of child actors who have made the rocky passage to adult careers. Otherwise, there’s not much obviously in common between fourth-generation showbiz princess Barrymore and Page, people polite society wouldn’t embrace. “You just have to connect of personal empowerment than of fashion atrocity or inline thuggery. the anything-but-Hollywood girl from Nova Scotia. your heart and follow through with that, and that’s always really Looked at that way, it’s not so surprising that, despite her fond- But when tomboy Page speaks of choosing the crucial follow-up to exciting. So it’s just about finding those situations and those char- ness for girly fare such as Never Been Kissed, Ever After and He’s Just Juno, her Oscar-nominated breakout role, it’s also apparent that she acters I feel passionate about spending time with.” Not That Into You, Barrymore would choose Whip It for her feature and Barrymore share an intoxicating love for their work. “What I Apparently, Page wanted to spend time with Bliss Cavendar, directing debut. look for first and foremost is honesty,” Page, 22, explains in an L.A. Whip It’s young heroine whom we first meet competing in a small- Still, everything about it was a stretch. And Barrymore had a blast. interview. “When a character is honest and whole and well-written, town Texas beauty contest. Don’t hate her for that; she hates it, too, “It’s just fun to reinvent,” she says. “It’s fun to be unsafe and just you’re going to be able to connect with that individual because we’re and only enters pageants to please her mom (Marcia Gay Harden). play around. Life is so short, I want to try everything.” all made of the same stuff. But a chance encounter with some fierce roller grrrls draws the un- She found directing to be demanding and delightful. “So, even if a character is in a situation that’s easy to judge, you happy Bliss to an Austin skate match. Soon, she’s an aspiring jammer “I directed a documentary called The Best Place to Start about voting can’t do that,” continues Page, who has a penchant for playing herself, and when she takes the name Babe Ruthless, it’s more an act in 2004,” says the 34-year-old Hollywood veteran of continued 

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 three decades. “But doing my first feature was amazing. It was very personal. I care about every coffee cup in a shot, the production design, the cinematography, editing, casting. I do all of those things as a producer, but…” Despite her public persona as a wacky free spirit, and her well- documented, often changing love life, Barrymore insists that art always comes first. “People ask me about clothes and ex-boyfriends, and I spend more time talking to reporters about that than I do in my real life,” she says. “I’m so focused on work and trying to be creative. So directing is a great forum for me because I get to do all of the things that I’m pas- sionate and serious about and are really, really real for me. So I love it.” As she mentioned, Barrymore has produced many of her own films over the past 10 years, including the hit Charlie’s Angels pictures and the cult classic Donnie Darko. But that kind of behind-the-camera experience wasn’t the only thing that gave her an advantage on Whip It. She is, after all, the goddaughter of Steven Spielberg, who made her a star at age seven in his sci-fi masterpiece E.T. VICTORIA, B.C. So, did she hit the world’s most successful director up for pointers? Eves of Destruction “I did!” Barrymore squeals. “He has a huge impact on me, subcon- Evesofdestruction.ca sciously and consciously. I showed him the film during editing.

Steven’s opinion is paramount to me. You know, he made a beautiful , B.C. TROJAN, THINTENSITY, and the Warrior Head logo are Trademarks of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. speech at the Golden Globes about mentoring, and I’m so fortunate Terminal City Rollergirls to get any of his mentoring time.” Terminalcityrollergirls.com Of course, Barrymore’s Hollywood connections go even deeper than that. She’s a scion of what was once considered the first family , ALTA. of the American theatre, and says she feels a palpable connection to its greatest generation, her grandfather John Barrymore and his Association siblings Ethel and Lionel. Calgaryrollerderby.com “Their pictures are everywhere in my house, so I acknowledge them, talk to them and think about them on a daily basis,” she reveals. EDMONTON, ALTA. “I always have Turner Classic Movies on in my bedroom, and when I E-Ville Roller Derby walk in they’re often on the TV and it feels like a sign from them. E-villederby.com Most importantly, for as long as I can remember, I have known and felt the pull of my blood, which is why I have dedicated my entire life WINNIPEG, MAN. to film. I would like to honour their name and keep it alive through Winnipeg Roller Derby League the generations, and make them proud. So I do everything in my Winnipegrollerderby.com power to honour my family.” Along with the great artistic legacy, though, came a history of , ONT. addiction and dysfunction. Success skipped a generation, and Drew’s Ottawa Roller Derby difficulties with her dissolute parents Jaid and John Drew Barrymore ROLLING Ottawarollerderby.com are well known. So are her own adolescent struggles with alcohol and drugs, chronicled in the best-selling autobiography, Little Girl Lost, Think Roller Derby LONDON, ONT. she wrote at the age of 14. is an American Forest City Derby Girls She’s held it together ever since, but it hasn’t been quite as easy as obsession? Forestcityderbygirls.com the multi-tasking free spirit has made it look. Think again. We’ve got plenty “I was sober and then I wasn’t, then I am sometimes,” she admits of kick-ass leagues right here TORONTO, ONT. without a hint of shame. “I fluctuate, but I think you can have a good in Canada. So if it’s been too time. Right now, for me, work is paramount, so I’m living a very strict long since you yanked Torontorollerderby.com regime. But I think you should do what is fitting for your life, so I someone’s hair or delivered a don’t really have a policy, except for be responsible. swift elbow to the ribs, get in , ONT. TROJAN THINTENSITY. ULTRA THIN CONDOMS FOR INTENSE SENSITIVITY. “And no judgments, please!” she adds emphatically. Which cer- touch with your local band of GTA Rollergirls tainly makes Barrymore and Page sound like true soul sisters. bruisers and they’ll help you Gtarollergirls.com PLEASURE YOU WANT. PROTECTION YOU TRUST. In honour of that special bond, we promise not to make fun of out. And if you’re not interested roller derby any more. Or until we’ve seen Whip It anyway. F in skates and stitches, check , QUE. USING THESE TWO PRODUCTS TOGETHER MAY NOT ONLY BE DANGEROUS BUT IS ALSO REALLY, REALLY STUPID. BESIDES, THERE ARE MUCH /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// out the websites just for the Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writes about movies and filmmakers. cool retro poster art. Mtlrollerderby.com BETTER USES FOR A CONDOM, WOULDN’T YOU AGREE? FOR MAXIMUM BENEFIT, READ INSTRUCTIONS ON PACKAGE.

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Q: And the film gives you the chance to SLOW shine, as a leading actor. A: “Rarely, as a woman of a certain age, do you get the opportunity to play a woman who goes on such a journey. I was blessed to be given the opportunity.” BURN Q: Even if that meant acting in 100 F Patricia Clarkson braves heat in one of the world’s most chaotic 130 F temperatures to cities? A: “Actually, it was 130 F in the White play a woman falling in Desert, outside Farafra. We were the first love…at a glacial pace film allowed to shoot there. It was an  BY INGRID RANDOJA incredible place, it was like being on the moon, it really was. But I began to love the oppressive heat. I’m a Southern girl, I grew up in New Orleans so I am used to the heat.”

Q: I’ve read that you do a lot of charity work in New Orleans. A: “I do what I can, it’s my hometown, it’s part of me. My mother is councillor- at-large, and she loves the city more than anyone in the family. It runs through her blood. And the good news is that the tourists are returning, and that is good news because the city depends on the tourist economy. But there are still parts of the city that are in shambles and gov- ernment money is owed to the city.”

Q:You have another film opening early atricia Clarkson, the consummate Q:Tell me about your character, Juliette. next year, Shutter Island, directed by supporting actor, finally gets to A: “Juliette is not like Patti [laughs]. She is a Martin Scorsese. I know you’re not play the lead. quiet, self-effacing woman. She’s an ordinary allowed to talk about it, but can you at Filmmakers have cast the whisky-voiced woman and that’s what attracted me to her least tell us who you play? PClarkson as wife, friend, mother and mistress — playing a woman who’s been a good wife A: “A woman in a cave.” in films such as Pieces of April, The Green Mile, and mother and who doesn’t realize that Far from Heaven — the list is long — since there is anything wrong with her life. In Q:A woman in a cave? she starred as Elliot Ness’s (Kevin Costner) fact, she is startled to realize that there is A: “Yes, a woman in the cave, that’s who wife in 1987’s The Untouchables. But it took this need inside her. I had to sit on my I play [laughs].” Montreal-born director/writer Ruba Nadda hands, both figuratively and physically, she to set Clarkson free in her tender love story is such a distilled character.” Q:What was it like to work with Cairo Time, casting her as an unassuming Martin Scorsese? married woman who falls for an Egyptian Q: What’s so lovely is that the romance A: “Martin is incredible, an incredible man (played by Alexander Siddig). between you and Alexander Siddig is so director, but so is Woody Allen [Allen cast Clarkson, now 49, was born and raised in subtle, bubbling under the surface. her in both Vicky Cristina Barcelona and New Orleans, Louisiana, the youngest of A: “The subtlety is enormous. I tell people Whatever Works] and Ruba. In the last few five girls. She moved to at the the most erotic thing I do in this movie is years I have worked with Woody Allen, age of 18 to attend Fordham University, drink a cup of coffee. This relationship is Martin Scorsese and Ruba Nadda. How then the Yale School of Drama, and she not moved forward in inches, it’s moved amazing is that? I was thinking, ‘Watch hasn’t looked back, acting steadily for the forward in fractions. That’s Ruba’s doing. out Patti, don’t get hit by a bus, your luck past 25 years. You could not have such a real, adult romance may have run out.’” Clarkson was in Los Angeles when we without her passionate and disciplined /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// spoke to her by phone about Cairo Time. writing and direction.” Ingrid Randoja is deputy editor of Famous.

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Cameron Diaz has had to make a lot of tough choices lately, like which way to take her career now that she’s nearing 40, and whether to kill a stranger in order to make a million bucks. Well, that last one Get a jump on action. is actually her character’s choice in The Box, but still, a tough decision  BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON Or romance. DECISIONSDECISIONS,DECISIONS, It’s a daunting choice every actor has know will die, but here’s a million dollars.’ And they’re at a place to make sooner or later: to act their age or not? financially where they could use a million dollars.” For Cameron Diaz, that time appears to be now. It’s no insignificant As Diaz, also at Comic-Con, puts it, “The question is, ‘Would I decision in youth-obsessed Hollywood, but in back-to-back roles this take another human’s life and what would I take it for — a million year, the 37-year-old — famous for providing the bubbly centre to such dollars?’” effervescent comedies as There’s Something About Mary, Shrek and Naturally, things get weirder as Norma and Arthur grapple with TM Charlie’s Angels — is channelling the vacant party girl no more. In this the consequences of their decision, but the movie never strays BlackBerry App World gives you instant access to past summer’s tearjerker My Sister’s Keeper, she starred as a lawyer from the moral dilemma at its centre. Originally published in 1970 loads of wicked apps on your TELUS BlackBerry® and the mother of a terminally ill cancer patient. And now in the as the short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson, the tale psychological thriller The Box for Donnie Darko writer-director served as the basis of a Twilight Zone episode in the 1980s. smartphone. Check showtimes and theatre locations Richard Kelly, she plays another wife and mother — one who is con- “I did like the existential part of this — why do people do what with Poynt, read GoogleTM movie reviews, and make fronted with a choice far more terrible than which movie to do next. they do?” Diaz says. “Is there a hand that rests over us and guides In the 1970s-set film, Diaz and James Marsden (X-Men, Enchanted) us? Is there someone judging us? What is it that defines human plans with friends through Facebook® – all on the fly. are Norma and Arthur, a couple approached by a mysterious, scarred beings? On a day-to-day basis we all make decisions that have stranger (Frank Langella, an Oscar nominee last year for Frost/Nixon) repercussions. There’s no way you can make a decision without it with a macabre offer. having a repercussion…. Every day we push a button in some way “Their life is pretty simple at the beginning,” says Marsden during or another, on every level — from the car that we drive to the food a chat at San Diego’s Comic-Con International. “They’re just this that we eat; every decision is pushing a button. And overall, are average American couple and this strange guy shows up and he says, those decisions going to lead to our destruction? Yes. Can they TELUS, the TELUS logo and the future is friendly are trademarks of TELUS Corporation. © Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. BlackBerry®, ‘Hi, here’s this box and if you press this button someone you don’t also lead to us flourishing? Yes.”  RIM®, Research In Motion®, SureType®, SurePressTM and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are continued registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world. Used under license from Research In Motion Limited. FACEBOOK is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc. Google and the Google logo are trademarks of Google Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. © 2009 TELUS. 34 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009

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But Diaz says there was another aspect of the film that appealed to her. “Overall, funny enough, I saw a beautiful love story in this,” she says with a laugh. For Kelly, who established himself as a filmmaker with the cult faves Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, The Box marks a departure — it’s his first studio production. Although there’s a sob story on every corner of every street in Hollywood, about how some gifted indie FIRE director was pulverized by studio suits, Kelly insists he had all the freedom he needed. IN THE BOX “Obviously, being blessed with Cameron and James and Frank, it Fans of Arcade Fire should listen closely to The Box’s gave me the opportunity to make the movie at Warners, which was soundtrack as the band’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne actually a relief because I knew it would wind up on the big screen team up with violinist and fellow Canuck Owen Pallett to with a marketing budget behind it,” Kelly says. “Those are the luxuries create the film’s suspenseful, melodic score. I haven’t had before. [Working in Hollywood] it’s really just about As Butler explained to online site Pitchfork, “It’s got this getting the studio invested in the story. They got it, they were on kind of sci-fi, kind of Alfred Hitchcock feel. Those Hitchcock board. They see dailies every day and you get notes from them, but I scores are some of my favourite movie music. We have a was able to navigate those waters. I got to make exactly the movie I Mellotron, and since it’s the ’70s, it really seemed to fit.” wanted to make. I’m kind of shocked it turned out that way, but it did.” Arcade Fire, which last licensed its song “My Body is a And Kelly believes the movie retains the primal appeal of the short Cage” to be used in a very cool commercial for The Curious story’s concept. “It’s a very pronounced metaphor. It feels like an old Case of Benjamin Button, can also be heard in this month’s myth. That’s what was so fascinating. It’s just a wooden contraption Where the Wild Things Are, which includes the tune “Wake Up” with a glass dome and red button. It’s nothing fancy. But there’s on its soundtrack. —IR something about its simplicity that makes your head explode with the possibilities of what it could mean.” With only 24 hours to decide whether or not to push the button — That’s what exists in this movie. It feels nostalgic. It gives a nod to and, perhaps, trigger a death — Norma and Arthur dissect the box many of those Hitchcock films.” only to discover there’s nothing inside. “It’s just a box,” Diaz says. “It’s Of course, Diaz has always shown she’s capable of sneaking just a button. There’s no transmitter…. So when the decision is made, in a darker-than-expected surprise between slick blockbusters, Norma just expects it not to be real — that nothing will happen.” whether it was the esoteric satire Being John Malkovich, Martin But what if something does happen? Norma eventually convinces Scorsese’s brutal Gangs of New York, the mind-bending Vanilla Sky herself it willl be okay “because it will be somebody we don’t know or the emotional In Her Shoes. But The Box is her first flat-out and probably somebody who deserves it because it could be a mur- chiller. Why did it take her this long? Maybe it’s because she isn’t derer on death row. They’re hoping for the best.” a fan of scary movies. Says Marsden, “It feels like a classic Hitchcock or Kubrick get-in- In fact, when asked what terrifies her in real life, she answers, your-head, under-your-skin thriller. Those are few and far between “Trailers to horror movies. I can’t watch them. I hate them. I’m these days and that’s what terrifies me. I don’t know if you saw the always afraid — because I want to look but I’m afraid I’ll look too original The Haunting, but you don’t see anything [in that movie] and long and see the one image that I’m not going to be able to get out it kills you — what you don’t see. It drives you crazy. In this day and of my head every night for a week before I’m going to bed.” F age, it’s very popular to show the blood and the knives and tie people ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// up, but to me, it’s more the psychological elements that terrify me. Kevin Williamson is a Calgary-based movie columnist for Sun Media.

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if we see the word “recessionista” one more 2 time, or are told to “shop your closet” instead of ’80s Redux actually going to a store, Newest fashion star Joseph Altuzarra we are going to scream. modernizes the ’80s trend with ruching, a close Enough already. After all the to the body fit, and elegant subdued colours. dour economic news of the “It’s more pure, less exaggerated” than the last year, a little sartorial original, he told Famous. fantasy wouldn’t hurt. To paraphrase an old New Yorker cartoon, “although I respect reality as a concept, I refuse to let it run my life.” So let’s 3 embrace fashion’s “out there” side this fall — thigh-high boots, oversized chunky cowl necks (see Helmut Lang and Rodarte) and some serious ’80s ruching. But if you must have wearability, we have that too. The dominant Glamorous Nomad silhouette of wide on top A heavily ornamented, artisanal reaction and narrower on the bottom to minimalism, this boho look (seen here means your skinny jeans at Diane Von Furstenberg) layers on the are still in style (phew). colours, textures and patterns for a rich With that in mind, we mélange kept modern with the give you fall 2009 in all its BEAUTY: ubiquitous leggings big-shouldered, fantastic MUST HAVES splendour. Let the Dressing Up begin. Inky Lashes {1} L’Oréal Paris Extra-Volume Collagen Mascara gives you the same thick fringe of long lashes as a similarly packaged, much pricier, department store line ($12, drugstores). The Nude Lip {2} Rimmel Moisture Renew Lipstick in Nude Delight ($7, Zellers) gives just the tiniest hint of gloss, FALL because we want pale, not cadaverous. The Girl Who Fell To Earth The Smoky Eye {3} Otherwordly and almost fragile, this futuristic The various hues in Physician’s creature (as envisioned by the Mulleavy sisters Formula Shimmer Strips Eye at Rodarte) fearlessly mixes textures and Shadow & Liner, Smoky Collection looks delicate and pale, but undercuts this in Hazel ($17, drugstores) lets ethereal translucence with thigh-high, black, you control the intensity from platform, take-no-prisoner boots. soft to smouldering. ALTUZARRA PHOTO BY MATT KAELIN, RODARTE PHOTO BY CHRIS MOORE/GETTY CHRIS BY PHOTO RODARTE KAELIN, MATT BY PHOTO ALTUZARRA

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reflective musings. “I just love these songs Singers and I’m passionate about this record,” says Dillon on On Screen the line from his Toronto home. It’s a record with a EVEmade a very respectable acting great title, one that begs debut in 2002’s Barbershop, and the rapper the question, does the with the golden locks continues to add to her former punk rocker work on-screen resumé with this month’s Whip It, well with others? playing roller-derby babe Rosa Sparks in “I’ve learned to, it’s been Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut. an evolution,” he says with a scratchy laugh. “I named the album for my mom, she YOU liked the title. She said, ‘You used to get that on report GOTTA cards, but then I don’t know what happened.’” HEAR Fans of Flashpoint can THIS hear some of Dillon’s tunes Musician, activist and blogger Matthew Good on the show’s soundtrack. reflects on life in his hometown with “It began last year when Vancouver (available October 6th), his ONE FOR HIS Flashpoint sent one of my follow-up disc to 2007’s Hospital Music. songs to CBS TV to get While you may think a CD dealing with approval, but didn’t tell West Coast living would be all hippy-dippy, them it was my song,” says think again — okay there is one song that Dillon. “CBS liked the song, includes some whale noises — but other - and when they found out wise this is an edgy record that takes the MOM it’s me...it’s great because I city to task, especially in the powerful tune Hugh Dillon’s The Headstones dissolved know the song made it on “The Vancouver National Anthem,” which renaissance continues. in 2003 Dillon took to the its own merit.” shines a light on the city’s forgotten souls. The 46-year-old first hit small-screen landing plum it big in the 1990s wailing parts in both Flashpoint and gnashing his teeth as and Durham County. 8OUT THIS MONTH the lead singer/songwriter But now he’s back with OCTOBER 6  Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost for The Headstones. Dillon a solo album, Works Well  The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control acted throughout the ’90s With Others (available OCTOBER 13  Say Anything - Say Anything  R. Kelly - Untitled — most notably in director October 13th), that OCTOBER 20  Themselves - CrownsDown  Electric Six - Kill Bruce McDonald’s Hard showcases Dillon’s deep- OCTOBER 27  Weezer - Raditude  Tegan and Sara - Sainthood HUGH DILLON PHOTO BY GORDON HAWKINS GORDON BY PHOTO DILLON HUGH SUBJECT TO Core Logo — and when as-a-mine voice and  CLASSIFICATION

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PS3 ne of 2007’s most lauded games, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune showed gamers the still-unproven PS3 really had the goods. While its cinematic presentation and diverse, almost photo-realistic jungle setting has scarcely been equalled, what it really offered was heart. Like the rare big-budget action movie that’s actually a terrific film in its own right, Uncharted had a compelling Ostory, a cast of lovable rogues and consistently exciting gameplay, all seen through the eyes of wisecracking treasure hunter Nathan Drake — an Indiana Jones for the 21st century. Despite narrowly surviving his sojourn on that uncharted, pirate- infested Pacific island, Drake — never one for the rules himself — is again mixed up with shady characters and a centuries-old mystery. Chasing the ghost of Marco Polo from lush green swamps to chaotic Brütal Legend DJ Hero urban environments, to Himalayan glaciers, he’s looking for a mystical PS3, XBOX 360 WII, PS2, PS3, XBOX 360 gem purported to bring both riches and power. Also returning are An epic rock ’n’ roll fantasy Combining Guitar Hero-style grizzled buddy Sully, and fiesty journalist (and now former paramour) adventure ensues when roadie gameplay with a turntable- Elena, plus his new squeeze, Aussie adventurer Chloe. Making matters Eddie Riggs — the voice and shaped controller, fans of even more awkward, other seekers of the lost Cintamani Stone include likeness of Jack “Hell, yeah!” club music can now turn a psychotic paramilitary leader commanding his own private army. Black — is sucked into a strange any rec room into the hottest As before, Uncharted 2 mixes platforming with third-person (yet oddly familiar) realm South Beach or Ibiza dance shooting, and players can take either a stealthy or an aggressive inspired by heavy-metal album spot. Wannabe DJs scratch, approach. The coolest addition, however, is multiplayer. Groups of covers. Here humankind is sample and beat-match three can play co-operatively online, and up to 10 can compete in enslaved by demons, and only alongside superstars like deathmatch and “plunder” modes. Eddie, wielding his trusty battle- DJ Shadow and DJ Z-Trip, There may be no trust, no loyalty, and no honour Among Thieves, axe and lightning-summoning performing 80 original but there are twists, thrills and quotable quips aplenty. guitar, can set them free to rock. remixes and mash-ups. RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 13 RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 13 RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 27

44 FAMOUS OCTOBER 2009 THE GOODS DVDRELEASES -Sandy Kenyon, WABC-TV BIG MOVIES COMING TO THE SMALL SCREEN  BY MARNI WEISZ October

EYE-POPPING ADVENTURE!

Jack Black takes a shot in the Biblical comedy Year One

OCTOBER 6 both familiar, like dinosaurs, been denied and she’ll have to and not-so familiar, like the move back to Toronto (egad!). Year One lizard people called Sleestaks. So, in order to stay in the STARS: Jack Black, Michael Cera In either case, run. country, she pretends to be DIRECTOR: Harold Ramis engaged to the assistant (Analyze That) Drag Me to Hell (Reynolds) she treats like a STORY: A couple of hapless STARS: Justin Long, slave. DVD Extras: “Set Antics: hunter-gatherers (Black, Cera) Alison Lohman Outtakes and Other Absurdities are kicked out of their village and DIRECTOR: Sam Raimi from The Proposal,” bloopers, spit into the ancient Middle East (Spider-Man 3) deleted scenes, alternate ending where they come across various STORY: A bank loan officer Biblical characters with whom (Lohman) makes the terrible Adoration OCTOBER 27 they interact in humorous ways. mistake of foreclosing on a STARS: Devon Bostick, DVD Extras:alternate ending, gag creepy old lady’s house. Now Scott Speedman Whatever Works reel, “The Year One Cutting Room” creepy old lady won’t be DIRECTOR: Atom Egoyan (Ararat) STARS: Larry David, satisfied until said bank loan STORY: Teenaged Simon (Bostick) Evan Rachel Wood OCTOBER 13 officer is in hell. DVD Extras: sets a strange series of events in DIRECTOR: Woody Allen production video diary motion when he writes a school (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) Land of the Lost assignment claiming that his STORY: Misanthropic old man STARS: Will Ferrell, Anna Friel The Proposal father, a terrorist, tried to blow up (David) marries sweet young DIRECTOR: Brad Silberling STARS: Sandra Bullock, a plane carrying his mother. woman (Wood) and things (Moonlight Mile) Ryan Reynolds At first, people take his story at don’t go as smoothly as STORY: A scientist (Ferrell), his DIRECTOR: Anne Fletcher face value. But this is an Egoyan they’d hoped. In between, lots assistant (Friel) and a survivalist (27 Dresses) film, so you know things are not of talking and angst and visits (Danny McBride) enter a space- STORY: A Canadian publishing what they seem. DVD Extras: from sweet young woman’s time vortex and come out the exec (Bullock) working in deleted scenes, Egoyan interview, mom (Patricia Clarkson) and On DVD Sept. 29 other side to discover creatures New York discovers her visa has “The Making of Adoration” dad (Ed Begley Jr.).

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FAMOUS We asked you… The first two Toy Story LAST movies are being OUR READERS HAVE THEIR SAYWORDS re-released in 3D. Is there another movie you’re dying to see on the big screen again? Could you imagine seeing Cleopatra in all its “extravagant glory on the big screen? The epic movies of the past would be great to re-live, ? especially for people like me who never got to see them in theatres. —Tait Gilliland, Kamloops, B.C.” You told us…

I would love to see the It has to be Dirty Dancing! I would love to see Akira Kurosawa’s Ran. Lord of the Rings trilogy Patrick Swayze and Kill Bill again on the This 1985 film is a on the big screen again. Jennifer Grey were amazing big screen! All of that blood testament of the legendary Watching them at home is in their roles. Definitely and guts is way cooler auteur’s masterful use of “nothing compared to the in 3D to capture the “on a 40-foot screen! “colour and sound in bringing experience of seeing them in a “impact of their dance —Aprile Riddle, Oshawa, Ont. this Shakespeare adaptation massive theatre with a moves! to cinematic brilliance. roaring sound system. —Marla Howard, Windsor, Ont. Seriously, there is nothing —Joel Walden, Oakville, Ont. ” better than watching Kurosawa epics on ” the big screen! ” —Danve Castroverde, , Ont. ” NEXT QUESTION: Which movie’s ending disappointed you the most? ANSWER ONLINE at Cineplex.com/famouslastwords All responses must be entered by October 31st. Look for the answers to this question in the December issue. Responses may be edited for length and clarity.

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